Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-17
4 DECIDED CHANGE.
THE STANDARD MILL TO REVOLUTIONIZR
THEIR OUTPUT.
Within a Snort Time They VIII Commence the
Manufacture Of PlauiShd lNa On
q Large Scale.

The Standard Mill company over at
Bridgeport is about to engage in a new
branch of the iron industry, and will in
all probability change the style of the out
nut entirely. The mill has heretofore
been run entirely on common sheet and
plate iron, products which meet very close
competition, and in the making of which
there is much less money realized than in
many of the finer grades and styles of pro-
duet. They have at length decided to
the manufacture of what is
known as loose rolled or planished sheet
iron, and have Mr.. William Yates, of
C~arshohocken, Pa, thoroughly practical
loose iron roller, employed to 90 to work
in the mill in a short time. MI. Yates is
now at the Sherman House in Bridgeport,
accompanied by his wife, and will in a few
days mmenc making preparations in
the mill for the new style of work. There
is but one planished iron mill west of the
Allegheny mountains, it being that Of n.
D. Wood & Co., OF McKeesport, where the
fight with the AmalgamatiOn is now IN force.
Mr.. Yates is from the mill Of Allen Wood,
in Carshohocken, a brother of the principal
owner of the McKeeSpOrt mill. 1t has
been a question of much speculation what
the Standard Company intended doing
with the immense three story brick build
ing recently erected by them, and gwen
out to be a warehouse. Ii Will, however,
be used for pickeling watts and to furnlsh
room for the other processes made neces-
sary in the manufacture OF their contem-
plated product. A part Of 1t also WILL
probably, be used as shops for the manu-
iacture of coal hods, stove pipe and other
novelties made of planished iron. Ihey
will also commence the erection OF another
building on the river bank, TO be used lor
uniting their product through the galva-
nazing process, thus more completely gai,,
yinizing their ware This building VIII
be commenced at once, n arrangements
are already made with the C., L. q W. h,
r. Co. for the use of a pile driver 10 build
a foundation, as soon as a small amount OF
railroad work can be completed on the
Martins Ferry extension. A meeting Oh
the Board of Directors was held Yesterday
afternoon at the company's office, ana
although the members were very retlcent
in speaking of the proposed changes
enough was CLEANED TO verify the above
statements. There is another matter IN
connection with this change which may
proye to be an interesting feature. The
EMPLOYEES of the Standard mill are all
A~malgamated men, and OF course the
AmalgamatiOn will expect to govern the
mill, and their scale to he kept IN force.
There are now, no mills under Amalga-
mated jurisdiction which make planlshed
iron. that of \. d. Wood Il Co. being a
non-union mill, and Mr.. Yates, the new
roller being n member of no union. Hence
the Amalgamated Association has no scale
for planished iron, and will have to make
one for the special benefit OF the Standard
or allow its jurisdiction in that mlll to
cease. II the Standard people and the
Amalgamation cannot arrange a satlsfac-
tory scale, it is hard to tell what the re-
suit will be, unless it is the abandoning OF
the subject az the employment OF non
union men, the later, a thing almost I'M
possible with the Amalgamation IN power
in sll the steel plants west Of the noun
tainS.